Special Events
Center for New Deal Studies
FDR@75 Exhibit and Opening Panel Discussion3/6/2008 5:30 PM
The Center for New Deal Studies celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal with a series of banners featuring documents, artifacts, and photographs from President Roosevelt’s 12 years in office. The exhibit is on loan from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum and will be displayed in the Michigan Avenue Lobby of the Auditorium Building during the month of March.
An opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Thursday, March 6 from 5:30-6:15 p.m. in the Michigan Avenue Lobby of the Auditorium Building, followed by a panel discussion - "Framing the New Deal: Art and Labor in the Great Depression" - at 6:30 p.m. in Room 232/236 of the Auditorium Building. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Margaret Rung at mrung@roosevelt.edu
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture10/11/2007 11:00 AM
Wendy Puriefoy, President, Public Education Network, will deliver the 15th Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture sponsored by the Center for New Deal Studies and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, Hyde Park. Puriefoy's talk, "Building a Constituency for Quality Public Education" will begin at 11:00 a.m. in Ganz Hall, 7th Floor, Aud. Building. Join us for a lively discussion of the role of public education in fostering civic responsibility and community life. Free and open to the public. No RSVP required, but seating is limited. For more information, contact: Margaret Rung, Director, Center for New Deal Studies at mrung@roosevelt.edu or 312-341-3724.
Lecture: "Women, Citizenship and the City"5/3/2007 5:30 PM
Join the Center for New Deal Studies' sister organization, the National New Deal Preservation Association--Midwest Chapter, for a lecture by Dr. Sylvia Rhor, Carlow University entitled, "Women, Citizenship and the City: Women as Artists, Patrons and Subjects in Chicago's School Mural Movement." Come enjoy the talk and see two restored WPA murals in the school, "Contemporary Chicago (1936) and "Horses from Children's Literature" (1936).
When: Thursday, May 3, 2007.
Where: Louis Nettlehorst Elementary School, 3252 N. Broadway, Chicago.
Free for NNDPA members, $10 for non-members (applicable to membership).
For more information, contact Margaret Rung (312-341-3724; mrung@roosevelt.edu) or Susan Weininger (312-341-3711; sweining@roosevelt.edu)
Working Women's History Project Gala4/20/2007 7:00 PM
Join us for the annual Working Women's History Project Gala on Friday, April 20, at 7 p.m. in the Congress Lounge of the Auditorium building. This year's recipient of the Mother Jones Award, Lauren Sugerman, is a founding member and president of Chicago Women in Trades. A longtime advocate for working women, she is also board member of Tradeswomen Now and Tomorrow, and in 2002, she was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. For more information or to purchase tickets for the event, contact Sue Straus, sstraus2100@yahoo.com.
New Deal 75th Anniv. (2008) Organiz. Mtg. AUD5281/19/2007 10:00 AM
Organizational Meeting for events relating to the 75th Anniversary of New Deal in 2008. Kathy Flynn of National New Deal Preservation Association will preside.
Celebration of Eleanor Roosevelt11/20/2006 5:00 PM
Celebration of Eleanor Roosevelt
Please join us for this special multi-media event in which we explore Eleanor Roosevelt through music, images, and the sound of her voice. Guest speakers will be Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Middleton. The program features performances of two musical works: In Eleanor’s Words by Roosevelt faculty member Stacy Garrop and Eleanor’s Gift by Chen Yi. A reception will follow in the lobby of Ganz Hall. This event is part of Roosevelt University's Dedication Day.
Buffy Baggot, mezzo soprano
Amy Briggs Dissanayake, piano
Nov. 20, 2006, 5:00 p.m.
Ganz Hall, 7th Floor
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave.
For more information, contact Stacy Garrop, sgarrop@roosevelt.edu
Lecture, Saving the Jews: FDR & the Holocaust11/9/2006 12:30 PM
Public Lecture
Robert Rosen will speak on his book, Saving the Jews: FDR and the Holocaust.
When: Nov. 9, 2006, 12:30 p.m.
Where: Congress Lounge, 2nd Floor, Roosevelt University
light refreshments
free and open to the public
For more information, contact Margaret Rung, mrung@roosevelt.edu
Center for New Deal Studies Annual FDR&ER Lecture10/26/2006 11:00 AM
Annual Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture
Co-Sponsored by the Center for New Deal Studies, Roosevelt University and
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, Hyde Park, NY
The 14th annual Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture:
“What Makes a Good Neighbor? Upholding Values of Human Rights and Security in Latin American Immigration to the United States”
An address by
Luis Alberto Cordero, Executive Director of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in San José, Costa Rica.
Cordero, an attorney, has been a consultant on political and electoral matters for the United Nations, the American Organization of States, the Democratic National Institute, and the Carter Center. From 1986 until 1990, he served as vice-minister under Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, and played a key role in the development of the Arias Peace Plan of 1987. Please join us for his timely talk on the past, present, and future of Latin American-U.S. relations and immigration.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
11:00 a.m.
Ganz Hall, 7th Floor
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave.
A small reception will follow the talk.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Margaret Rung, Director, Center for New Deal Studies, at mrung@roosevelt.edu; 312-341-3724
Chicago Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade10/25/2006 6:30 PM
Chicago Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Annual Performance and Celebration
6:30 p.m.
For more information contact Yolanda Hall, bobbyhall5000@sbcglobal.net
The Importance of a Useable Past10/19/2006 5:30 PM
The Importance of a Useable Past: Social History, Working-Class Voices, and Struggles for Justice. This event honors Elizabeth "Betty" Balanoff, Professor Emerita of History at Roosevelt University, for her commitment to social jusice, and whose 50 plus oral histories of working class Chicagoans have been digitized and made available to scholars and students for the first time.
The event will feature a panel of professors and distinguished Roosevelt alumni discussing the intersection of social history, social justice, and Roosevelt University:
Moderator:
Lynn Weiner, Dean of Arts & Sciences, RU
Panel:
Betty Balanoff, Professor Emerita of History, RU
Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History, Northwestern University
Sue Levine, Professor of History, University of Illinois Chicago
Christopher Reed, Professor Emeritus of History, RU
For more information, contact Mary Beth Riedner, mriedner@roosevelt.edu; 312-341-3640
Lady Labor Sluggers Forum: Education and Democracy Then and Now9/16/2006 9:00 AM
9:00 to 1:30
Click here for more information and to register
A forum on teachers’ rights and responsibilities, which compares the situation in 1904 with now. The event will feature Kate Rousmaniere, author of Citizen Teacher: The Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley, other prominent educators, and a performance. Cost will be $15.00 for lunch and materials; teachers who attend will be awarded CPDUs. (Checks to be made out to Center for New Deal Studies.) For more information, please contact Connie Goddard, cgoddard@roosevelt.edu; 312-341-4326.
Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review11/18/2005 12:00 AM
The Center for New Deal Studies is co-sponsoring a symposium (Nov. 18 and 19) with Chicago-Kent College of Law on Larry Kramer's book, The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review. Participants include Jack Rakove, Stanford University and Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School. For more information contact Daniel Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Law at dhamilton@kentlaw.edu or 312-906-5192.
2005 Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture11/10/2005 11:00 AM
2005 Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture
“The FCC and the Media”
A Four Freedoms Roundtable and Fireside Chat
Created in 1934 to regulate telephones, radio, and later television, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) became part of the New Deal effort to protect the public interest by expanding the regulatory state. The 2005 Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Lecture will feature a panel of media experts addressing the past, present and future role of the FCC. The panel will consider a variety of questions: What role does the private and public sector media play in fostering free speech and a democratic society? What does concentrated media ownership mean for the preservation of local viewpoints, and for print and broadcast journalism as well as radio? How should the public interest protected in radio, television and the internet? What is the future of public broadcasting?
Karen Gibbs (moderator), former co-host of “Wall Street Week” with Fortune.
Michael Copps, FCC commissioner, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries and chief of staff for former South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings.
Carol Marin, columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and investigative reporter for NBC-5, former anchor for WMAQ and WBBM and a correspondent for CBS News, including “60 Minutes,” “The CBS News with Dan Rather,” and “48 Hours”
Newton Minow, senior counsel, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, former chair of the FCC under President John F. Kennedy, and former chair of PBS
John C. Roberts, Professor of Law, DePaul University, specialist on telecommunications law, and a former communications lawyer for Covington & Burling who argued many cases before the FCC.
November 10, 2005
11:00 a.m.
Ganz Hall, 7th Floor
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago
70th Ann. Celebration of the Social Security Act8/15/2005 11:00 AM
The Center for New Deal Studies is co-sponsoring a 70th anniversary celebration of the Social Security Act (SSA) with Citizen Action/Illinois, among other organizations. Signed on August 14, 1935, SSA was a centerpiece of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Second New Deal." The event will feature speakers and cake. RSVP required. To RSVP and for more information, contact Ryan Canney at Citizen Action/Illinois, 312-427-2114, x6 or ryan@citizenaction-il.org.
August 15, 2005
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (speakers begin at noon)
2nd Floor, Congress Lounge
Fireside Chat: A New Deal for the Environment5/2/2005 4:30 PM
Henry L. Henderson
Partner, Policy Solutions Ltd., Lecturer in the Environmental Studies at the University of Chicago, and former Commissioner of Environment for the City of Chicago
FDR’s “environmental legacy” is a vision and practical achievement integrating the Human economy and the economy of Nature, pointing the way to a genuinely sustainable future.
Henry L. Henderson is partner in the environmental consulting firm Policy Solutions Ltd., and Lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Chicago. He served as the founding Commissioner of Environment for the City of Chicago and as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois. He is co-editor of the recently published FDR and the Environment: Recovering the Environmental Legacy of the New Deal.
These are the first of many Fireside Chats in a program that will include future discussions of international institutions and national security, fair labor practices, the arts, financial institutions and security, political action, energy policies, and the protection of the public airwaves.
Fireside Chat: FDR’s Unfinished Constitutional Rev4/21/2005 4:30 PM
Cass R. Sunstein
Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and the Department of Political Science
FDR’s leadership and vision of the nation and its laws is an integral part of American values and aspirations, based on the President’s articulation of “the clear realization that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.”
Cass R. Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and Department of Political Science. He has authored numerous articles and books, including The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need it More Than Ever, Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict and After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State. He is the most-cited law professor on any faculty in the United States.
Working Women's History Project Gala4/7/2005 7:00 PM
Join us for the annual WWHP gala and presentation of the Mother Jones Award.
For more information contact Sue Straus: sstraus2001@yahoo.com
Fireside Chat: James Roosevelt, Jr. on Social Security3/30/2005 4:30 PM
James Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and former associate commissioner for retirement policy for the Social Security Administration, will discuss current and historical issues involving social security at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 30 at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.
Roosevelt Jr, who has recently been outspoken in the media and in Washington D.C., at times setting the record straight on what his grandfather, FDR, intended for the nation’s social security plan and system, will discuss “FDR’s Real Vision for Social Security” during the first in a series of so-called, Roosevelt-style “fireside chats” in which aspects of FDR’s New Deal will be explored for their relevance and viability today.
Roosevelt Jr., who is senior vice president and general counsel of Tufts Health Plan, has been vocal in criticizing those who have contended his grandfather would have wanted a portion of social security to be privatized. Recently, Roosevelt Jr. called for a “retraction, an apology, maybe even the resignation” of Fox News correspondent Brit Hume whom Roosevelt Jr. criticized for distorting his grandfather’s comments and intentions for social security. He also recently testified in Washington D.C., based on handwritten notes from his grandfather, on what FDR hoped could be achieved with social security.
The lecture and discussion is the first in a series of New Deal “fireside chats” that are being held at Roosevelt University, a private, non-sectarian institution which advocates social justice and is named for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
“For a large number of Americans, the New Deal set about to describe the America they believed in - and desperately needed,” said Margaret Rung, director of the University’s Center for New Deal Studies. “What we want to consider during these fireside chats is whether the New Deal has taken on a different meaning for Americans in the new century - and if it has, what that meaning should be,” said Rung.
Upcoming fireside chats at the University will feature Carl Sunstein, the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School, who will discuss how FDR’s leadership and vision of the nation and its laws are an integral part of American values and aspirations. Sunstein’s lecture, entitled “FDR’s Unfinished Constitutional Revolution,” will be held at 4:30 p.m. April 21 at the University.
Then, Henry L. Henderson, a partner in Policy Solutions Ltd. and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Chicago, will discuss FDR’s environmental legacy at 4:30 p.m. May 2 at the University.
Additional fireside chats also are being planned on international institutions, national security, fair labor practices, the arts, financial institutions and security, political action, energy policy and protection of the public airwaves.
Sponsored by the University’s Center for New Deal Studies, these chats are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Margaret Rung at 312-341-3724 or at mrung@roosevelt.edu..
Distinguished Faculty Lecture3/23/2005 4:00 PM
Dan Headrick, Professor of Social Science and History
Evelyn T. Stone University College
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